Football: Dean strikes four times
NICKY Dean struck four times to help inflict a demoralising league defeat on Pete Booth's Cheadle United.
Sunday's game was played at a furious pace, but Paul Callear and Damon Smith began to exert control for United.
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Cheadle United are celebrating a sponsorship link-up with electrical contractors Curry and Bevan and Town and Country Landscape and Build, who have provided the club with a fully-equipped medical bag and training tops respectively. Richard Broadley, third left, presented one of the tops to United captain Damon Smith before Sunday's game. Picture: Steve Bould
However, it was league leaders Knutton who opened the scoring on 30 minutes, when Dean headed home from a corner.
Cheadle rallied and Chris Heathcote was unfortunate to see an effort go wide before the break.
Straight from the kick-off in the second half, United were given a mountain to climb.
Some woeful defending gift-wrapped Dean's second.
And to make matters worse, United were guilty of some similarly slack defending moments later to hand the Matthey striker his hat-trick.
United introduced substitutes Marc Hubbard and Lee Bloor in an attempt to salvage something from the game.
However, Will Sergeant killed it off when he netted Matthey's fourth.
And things got worse for Cheadle when the prolific Dean made the final score 5-0.
In this Sunday's Premier League Cup quarter-final, Cheadle United host arch rivals Sneyd (11am).
Cheadle United Reserves travel to Abbey Hulton in a Division Two fixture (11am).
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